http://onvertigo.com connecting friends and family through blogs Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:51:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are getting closer to the official release of Onvertigo Media which will be the new video and audio site for our members.    I have it working right now on a software called PHP Motion which allows you to have a video site much like YouTube.   It is really cool!     ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/08/06/onvertigo-media/ We are happy to launch our new global posts blog!   This blog will showcase all the posts from the community and used as a great way to showcase what everyone is posting on their blogs!   It will be populated as people blog!    It is based on the great plugin from ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/07/20/global-posts-and-tags/ One of the changes that is now with Onvertigo Bloggers is the adaptation of "Google Gears" in the administration area.   Not sure what that is?   It really is a simple thing for you as a blogger here.    There are quite a few "files" that are loaded when you are viewing ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/06/18/speed-up-browsing-of-this-site/ I have to admit it, I am not really a fan of advertisements when I am reading blogs.   It is frustrating to see flashing ads and images all over the page when really all you want to do is read the content.    The service is still not open to the ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/05/30/no-adverts-for-friends-or-members/ We now have all the themes working so that they work with the Gravatar avatar system.   What that really means is that you can signup for an account on gravatar.com and when you make a comment on any site on Onvertigo Bloggers (and around the web) you will automatically have ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/05/20/avatars-for-comments/ After doing some serious thinking on this issue and the inability to find a video plugin that works for multiple services, we have decided to allow embedding in posts.   So what does this mean?    When you are viewing a youtube video, flickr video or something similar, it usually has a ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/05/20/youtube-flickr-video-embeds/ We have officially launched our new administration area with the recent upgrade!    Things are going to look quite a bit different than you are used to, but it really is a great change!   As well, the admin pages are also going to load much faster now that we have the ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/04/28/new-administration-dashboard/ Currently, we are running 104 themes on Onvertigo Bloggers!    While we plan on adding more as we go, that is many ways to customize the look of your blog!    Several of the themes also allow you to upload your own header image and many have customization available to easily change ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/03/18/themes-should-be-100/ I am playing around so that users of this service can get an email address on this service if they so require. The format I am looking at is: username@onvertigo.com The email will be accessible exactly like Gmail as it is run on their Google Apps network. I ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/03/02/onvertigo-bloggers-email/ After having some great testing here in January and early February we have decided to work through and grow the community a little more. The community itself is still invitation only through members, but working on building a greater user base! Today we launched a new facebook group called ... http://onvertigo.com/2008/02/19/facebook-group-for-onvertigo/